To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. – Torquato Tasso

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. – Bil Keane

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – George MacDonald

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. – Anne Roiphe

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. – Saint Augustine

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. – Ellen DeGeneres

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. – Jack Layton

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. – Jean de la Bruyere

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. – William Blake

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. – Douglas Horton

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A. A. Milne

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters? – James A. Baldwin